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Is 4,400 hanks as long as The Diameter of Earth?

It's about half as long as The Diameter of Earth
The length of The Diameter of Earth is about 8,719.0188 hanks.
(Equatorial)
The Earth — not a perfect sphere, but rather an oblate spheroid with bulged middle — has a diameter of approximately 8,719.0186 hanks at the Equator. The first complete view of Earth's diameter was in a photograph taken from a V-2 rocket launched in 1946 by the United States Army, which reached an altitude of 71.50 hanks.
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